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Features and admins

Approved this week

Administrators

One editor was granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Explicit (nom).

Twelve articles were promoted to featured status this week: Tropic Thunder (nom), The Beatles (nom), Pennsylvania State Capitol (nom), St. Johns River (nom), Interstate 68 (nom), Buildings of Nuffield College, Oxford (nom), SMS Derfflinger (nom), Boeing 777 (nom), Not One Less (nom), All Hell Breaks Loose (Supernatural) (nom), The Historian (nom) and John Lloyd Waddy (nom).

Four lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of 125cc Motorcycle World Champions (nom), Timeline of the 1987 Atlantic hurricane season (nom), Major League Baseball Comeback Player of the Year Award (nom) and List of international cricket centuries by Virender Sehwag (nom).

No topics were promoted to featured status this week.

No portals were promoted to featured status this week.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article this week: Gray's Inn, Interstate 355, Franklin Knight Lane, Darjeeling, Victoria Cross for Australia, 1968 Illinois earthquake and Inner German border.

Two articles were delisted this week: Mandy Moore (nom) and Voting system (nom).

One list was delisted this week: List of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya episodes (nom).

No topics were delisted this week.

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: Dusky Moorhen, 38th painting from the Hamzanama, 1885 Pulaski, New York, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, Old World Swallowtail, Parma Wallaby and South Beach.

No featured sounds were promoted this week.

Two featured pictures were demoted this week: Tasmanian Native-hen (nom) and Carbon Nanotubes (nom).

Eleven pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.